Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
This page consists of sample findings and excerpts. It is also an account of the contents of my home and digital files from my camera. If you have suggestions, have a collection you want to share, or are in Chicago and would like to see something in person, please contact me. This blog is intended as a casual, more personal supplement to the main Public Collectors website.
Public Collectors is maintained by Marc Fischer.
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For about ten years in the 1990s and early 2000s I kept an active collection of photos clipped from books, magazines and newspapers. The file headings developed organically, taking cues from whatever I repeatedly happened to choose to save. These photos were scanned from the “Bandaged and Wrapped Bodies” file. You can see more photos from these photo files on Flickr.
For about ten years in the 1990s and early 2000s I kept an active collection of photos clipped from books, magazines and newspapers. The file headings developed organically, taking cues from whatever I repeatedly happened to choose to save. These photos were scanned from the “Bandaged and Wrapped Bodies” file. You can see more photos from these photo files on Flickr.
For about ten years in the 1990s and early 2000s I kept an active collection of photos clipped from books, magazines and newspapers. The file headings developed organically, taking cues from whatever I repeatedly happened to choose to save. These photos were scanned from the “Shadows” file. You can see more photos from these photo files on Flickr.
For about ten years in the 1990s and early 2000s I kept an active collection of photos clipped from books, magazines and newspapers. The file headings developed organically, taking cues from whatever I repeatedly happened to choose to save. These photos were scanned from the “People Dressed as Animals” file. You can see more photos from these photo files on Flickr.
For about ten years in the 1990s and early 2000s I kept an active collection of photos clipped from books, magazines and newspapers. The file headings developed organically, taking cues from whatever I repeatedly happened to choose to save. These photos were scanned from the “People Dressed as Animals” file. You can see more photos from these photo files on Flickr.
For about ten years in the 1990s and early 2000s I kept an active collection of photos clipped from books, magazines and newspapers. The file headings developed organically, taking cues from whatever I repeatedly happened to choose to save. These photos were scanned from the “People Dressed as Animals” file. You can see more photos from these photo files on Flickr.
A June, 1973 photo from a large collection that I picked up at a flea market last month.
A 1973 photo from a large collection that I picked up at a flea market last month.
A June, 1973 photo of the not-so-old lady who lived in a shoe, from a large collection of family photos I picked up at a flea market last month.
An undated envelope from Kodak, found in a large collection of family photos I picked up at a flea market last month.
An undated photo of a cat, from a large collection of family photos I picked up at a flea market last month.
An undated photo of a cat, from a large collection of family photos I picked up at a flea market last month.
A photo of a 1971 appearance by Ronald McDonald, likely from the Palatine, Illinois area. From a large collection of family photos I picked up last month.
An Eastman Kodak envelope used for delivering processed photos. Probably from the 1960s.
Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary by Bruce Jackson, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1977.
